Woven sheeting fabric.



No. 687,465. Patented Nov. 26, [90L a; P. TAYLOR.

WOVEN SHEETING FABRIC.

(Application filed Aug. ll, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITD STATES PATENT Farce.

GEORGE I. TAYLOR, OF CLINTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

WOVE.N SHEETING FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 687,465, dated November 26, 1901.

Application filed August 11, 1900. Serial No..26,569. (N model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE P. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Olinton, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Woven Sheeting Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to woven sheeting fabric used for bed-sheets and pillow-cases.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved woven sheeting fabric.

In the ordinary construction of woven sheeting fabric the sheeting is of the same strength and durability throughout its width. I

As is well known, the greatest wear in the sheeting is at the central portion, where it soon wears thin by constant use and readily tears, so that it is necessary in order to continue to use the sheeting to tear it apart through the center and sew it together, thus making an objectionable scam in the sheeting. In my improved sheeting I overcome the tendency of the sheeting to wear thin at the central portion and provide a sheeting which is more durable and will not wear thin or tear'at the central portion.

My invention consists in certain novel features of my woven sheeting fabric, as will be hereinafter fully described.

I have shown in the drawings a detached section of my sheeting sufficient to illustrate the nature of my invention.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan or face view of a detached section of my sheeting fabric. Fig. 2 is an'edge view of the fabric shown in Fig. 1 looking in the direction of arrow at, same figure.

In the accompanying drawings,1 represents the filling or weft threads extending transversely through the sheeting fabric in the ordinary way-that is, at a uniform distance apart.

2 represents the warp-threads of the fabric extending in the direction of the length of the fabric, and in Fig. 1 these warp-threads are of uniform size; but instead of being arranged at uniform distances apart through the width of the fabric, as is ordinarily the case in woven sheeting fabric, they are graduated or arranged at varying distances apart-that is, beginning with the selvage edges 3 of the fabric the warp-threads 2 gradually increase in number and extend closer together toward the central portion of the fabric, as shown in Fig. 1.

Through the central portion of the sheeting fabric, where the greatest wear comes, there are the greatest number of warp-threads 2, and they are arranged closer together and atja uniform distance apart and then graduated toward the edges, where the least wear comes, as shown. All the warp-threads 2 can tend or lie in the same horizontal plane, and the warp-threads are graduated or arranged at varying distances apart by having the dents or teeth of the reed graduated or arranged at varying distances apart to correspond with the arrangement of the warpthreads.

It will be understood that the details of construction of my sheeting fabric may be varied, if desired, without departing from the essential features of my improvements,which consist principally in graduating the number of the warp-threads uniformly from the central portion toward the edges of the fabricto make the central portion,where the most wear .comes, stronger and more durable,with all the warp-threads extending or lying in the same horizontal plane or beside each other and not extending or lying upon each other. The fabric thus formed will present a central portion in the form of a band or stripe of increased wearing qualities and the we ft-threads will be at a uniform distance apart throughout the fabric.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An improved article of manufacture, a woven sheeting fabric havinga central portion of increased wearing quality in which central portion the warp-threads are closely assembled and at a. uniform distance apart to produce a central wearing stripe or band, the warp threads on each side of the central wearing stripe or band being graduated atincreasing distances apart toward the selvage edges, and the warp-threads being extended in the same horizontal plane.

2. An improved article of manufacture, a

weft threads, the latter being arranged at a Woven sheeting fabric composed of warp and uniform distance apart throughout the fabdistances apart toward the selvage edges, the ric, said sheeting fabric having the warpsaid warp-threads lying side by side in subthreads in the central portion thereof assemstantially the same plane.

bled closely to etherand at a uniform dis- 5 tance apart to produce a stripe or band of v f R increased wearing qualities; and the warp- Witnesses: threads on each side of said stripe or band I J. G. DEWEY,

being graduated uniformly and at increasing M. HAAS. 

